We Bought a Car and Never Got the Title

[rlbrogers2]

My question involves a consumer law issue in the State of: CA and AZ

We live in AZ and we bought a car from CA last month from a private party. Since the seller doesn't have clear title, he gave us a notarized Bill of Sale and notarized Agreement to Provide Title Within 15 Days. It's now been 35 days and we still don't have the title and lien release. He told us this week that the visa check that he used to pay-off the car loan was not funded by Visa, and he used the money that we paid him to pay for his new car. We can't return the car because he doesn't have any money to pay us back, plus we like the car. What are our options? What's our recourse?

[cdwjava]

Sounds like you need to sue him.

NEVER buy a car without clear title. Chances are you will have a difficult time collecting even if you do get a judgement against him.